BMW Group Win Design Team of the Year
Yesterday Chris Bangle and the BMW Group design team (including MINI) were awarded the prestigious Red Dot award and named the design team of the year for 2007. You can read more...
MINI European Apparel & Accessories
Those of us in North America often get our own accessories and apparel from MINI. They’re designed to appeal the NA market and are often sold at a lower cost than the...
BSSP Wins for MINI “Covert” Campaign
From today’s Adage: >Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners won the $100,000 grand prize in the 26th annual Kelly Awards today, taking the top honor for its Mini USA “Covert” campaign. >The Butler...
New World Record Line of MINIs Set
For the 2nd time this year, the Guinness World Record for a continuous line of MINIs has been broken. This time, it was Sunday, June 10 at Virginia Beach. Here’s the official...
The Rise of The White Roof
WindingRoad takes a look at the growing trend of white roofs on cars around the world. Here’s an excerpt: >White roofs are set to rise in popularity in the coming years, and...
Autoweek Drives the 2007 Cooper S
This time they focus not on performance but on the character of the car and how it relates to what came before it. In fact this review will sound familiar to anyone...
MINI SUV Rendering Surfaces
Worldcarfans today is re-running much of the same information that has reported recently around the web (and at MF) on the upcoming MINI soft-roader/SUV. Unfortunately the title of their article is fairly...
Do you really need Premium Fuel?
A question I ran across last week at The Farm Press of all places that asked the following, reprinted from Consumer Reports. >Two cars drive into a service station: a brand new...
Business Week on the R56
One of the things I am beginning to enjoy is picking apart a truly bad automotive review, especially when it’s done by a non-automotive publication. Case in point, Business Week. >The regular...
MINI Canada Adds Cooper “Classic” Model
Note: The term “classic” is only marketing in this case. The Cooper “Classic” is simply a MINI Cooper offering in Canada with a limited number of options available at a lower price...